Full Program at a Glance

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

(All times EDT)

12:00 – 12:05	Audit Leadership Event (ALE) Welcome \| Platinum Sponsor: Wolters Kluwer, TeamMate \| Jim Dunham, EVP & GM
12:05 – 12:15	ALE Overview – Sheila Smigarowski, Sheila Smigarowski Consulting and Coaching
12:15 – 13:45	ALE Keynote – David Horsager, CEO, Trust Edge Leadership Institute \| Keynote Sponsor: EY
13:45 – 14:00	Break
14:00 – 15:30	ALE Panel \| Panel Sponsor: WSP Global Harold Silverman, Managing Director, Professional Practices, The IIA (Moderator) Peter Dey, Chairman of Paradigm Capital Colleen Johnston, Chairperson at Unity Health Toronto, Audit Committee Chair / Board Member of McCain Foods, Shopify & Private Debt Partners and serves on several other boards Dailene Kells, Partner Risk Advisory, Deloitte Mohamed Irshad, Head of Global Internal Audit for the Americas hub in Schneider Electric and is based in Calgary, Canada.
15:30 – 15:35	Break
15:40 – 16:40	ALE Keynote – Wes Hall, Executive Chairman & Founder of Kingsdale Advisors & The Canadian Council of Business Leaders Against Anti-Black Systemic Racism and The BlackNorth Initiative \| Keynote Sponsor: ACCA Canada
16:40 – 16:45	ALE Wrap up – Brian Brown, Consultant
16:45 – 17:45	Post Event Round Tables & Networking

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

		Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4	Track 5	Track 6
	General Session	Leadership & Innovation	French Language Content	Fraud & Ethics	Public Sector/MUSH	IT Audit, Cyber Security and Data Analytics	Soundbites
10:00 – 10:05	Opening Remarks – Conference Co-Chairs : Stephen Ward and Linda Klassen
10:05 – 10:15	Guy Desrochers, Chair, Board of Directors, IIA Canada
10:15 – 10:58	Anthony Pugliese, The IIA President and CEO: IIA Global’s Strategic Plan
11:00 – 12:00	Opening Keynote – Tanmay Bakshi, Kid Genius, Youngest Designer on IBM Watson / Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Expert \| AI for Everyone: Building Impactful and Safe AI Applications
12:00 – 12:45	Lunch Time! Recharge, Refuel and Visit the Exhibits
12:00 – 12:45	Protiviti Lunch and Learn \| Ransomware: How prepared is your organization? Michael Kostanecki and Tarun Dhawan
13:00 – 13:50	Concurrent Session 1	To Go One Step Further: The Case for an Audit of Strategy Matej Drascek, LON d.d.	Une vue de l’ensemble: des audits intégrés Greg Nesbitt et Naomi Belleau, Banque du Canada	How Fake News & Deception Caused an Ethical Crisis Nejolla Korris, InterVeritas International Ltd	Audit Talk – Rebooting Your Brain Linda Klassen, Provincial Auditor Saskatchewan	IT enterprise risk management in the time of COVID: A Vegas story Ralph Villanueva, Diamond Resorts	Effective auditing expertise in the world of digital transformation \| Gamified Training – this is how you learn today! Dominik Foerschler, ARC Institute and Rainer Lenz, Head of Internal Audit
13:50 – 13:55	Get Up and Stretch!
14:00 – 14:50	Concurrent Session 2	Leadership, Resilience and Meditation – ways to support our organizations, our people, and ourselves Hailey Pinksen, City of Lethbridge	Structurer un programme d’audit interne en continu Melanie Perron, SÉPAQ	All roads lead to Risk – How Internal Audit can drive Ethical Behavior Shawn Hendry, FortisAlberta	Touchstone Insights for Public Sector Jonathan Pizarro, Wolters Kluwer	Major Digital/Technology Transformation? so how can Internal Audit help through Project Risk Services Kareem Sadek, KPMG Rob Van Ballegooijen, KPMG	Third Party Risk in the New Economy James Barr, KPMG
14:50 – 14:55	Get Up and Stretch!
15:00 – 16:00	Panel: The upskilling imperative: Building a Future Ready Audit Work Force in the Digital Age Arshad Majeed, Internal Audit Partner at Deloitte (Moderator) Pat Colavita, Senior Vice President and Chief Internal Auditor, Foresters Financial Amit Prabhu, Vice President, Internal Audit, OpenText Brian Philbin, Assistant Commissioner and Chief Audit Executive, Canada Revenue Agency
16:00 – 16:05	Get Up and Stretch!
16:05 – 17:00	Concurrent Session 3	Internal Auditing in an Unpredictable Environment Melissa Polak, Aurora Cannabis	Une approche novatrice d’audit interne pour la surveillance de projets interministériels / interorganisationels ou impliquants plusieurs paliers de gouvernements. Heloise Bedard, MNP et Benoit Boivin, Gouvernement du Québec	Internal Audit’s Role in Diversity Equity & Inclusion Rachel Jurgens, Deloitte LLP	All hands on deck: How the CRA’s assurance function pivoted from value protection to value creation in the era of COVID Louis Seabrooke, Kristen Petruska and Patrick Desrochers, Canadian Revenue Agency	Analytical Therapy: Get Your Custom Prescription to Your Data Analytics Challenges. Lenny Block, Consultant	The Next-Generation Internal Audit Journey: Protiviti’s 2021 Internal Audit Next-Gen Survey Results Ram Balakrishnan, Protiviti

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

		Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4	Track 5	Track 6
	General Session	Leadership & Innovation	French Language Content	Fraud & Ethics	Public Sector/MUSH	IT Audit, Cyber Security and Data Analytics	Soundbites
10:00 – 10:05	Opening Remarks for the Day
10:05 – 10:40	The Road to Success : IIA Certifications Rachael Golembuski, Chief Audit Officer – connectFirst Credit Union, Greg van Choyke, Director of Strategic Global Initiatives and Imran Zia, Government of British Columbia
10:45	Keynote intro
10:45 – 11:45	Keynote – Eric Termuende, Future of Work Expert – One-Degree Shifts: Building Tomorrow’s Greatest Places to Work
11:45 – 12:12	Recharge, Refuel and Visit the Exhibits
12:15 – 13:15	Concurrent Session 4	Optimizing Innovation and Value from Co-Sourcing and Outsourcing Internal Audit – The Do’s and Don’ts Richard Arthurs & Rob Kuling, MNP	Tous sur le pont : Comment la fonction d’assurance de l’ARC est passée de la protection de la valeur à la création de valeur à l’ère de la COVID-19 Louis Seabrooke, Kristen Petruska et Patrick Desrochers, Agence du revenu du Canada	Fraud Risk After COVID-19 Mary Breslin, Verracy	Diversity and Inclusion in Public Sector Hiring Practices Sharon Messerschmidt, Public Service Commission	Tomorrow is a Different Day – Managing your Third Party Vendor Risk Post Pandemic James Murray, RiskIT and Jeremy Picco, PRA Canada	The Agile Independent Risk Assessment: An Indispensable GPS for Organizational Transformation Amid Disruption Hash Qureshi, MNP
13:15 – 14:12	Lunch Time! Recharge, Refuel and Visit the Exhibits
14:15 – 15:10	Concurrent Session 5	The ESG Maturity Model: How does your Organization Compare with Others? How can IA add value? Edward Olson, MNP	Intelligence naturelle dans un monde d’intelligence artificielle Jocelyn Bérard, Optimum Talent	Corruption – Moral, Ethical, Financial and Legal Implications Marc Tassé, University of Ottawa	Rethinking reliance: identifying and removing cultural barriers Carol Bellinger, Canadian Audit & Accountability Foundation	The Complete Picture: Integrated Audits Greg Nesbitt and Naomi Belleau, Bank of Canada	The Secret to Agile Auditing Mary Breslin, Verracy
15:15 – 16:15	Keynote – Mike Milito, Assistant Comptroller General, Internal Audit Sector, Government of Canada – The Internal Audit Vision in Action – Update on the implementation of the IA Vision in the Government of Canada
16:15 – 16:20	Get Up & stretch!
16:20 – 17:10	Concurrent Session 6	Intersecting Internal Audit and Business Analysis Keith Ellis, IIBA	L’innovation et les nouvelles tendances en matière d’éthique et de la gestion des risques de fraude Myriam Duguay, KPMG	Ethics and Compliance: The Role of Audit Leadership. Brian Brown, Consultant and Robert Kuling, MNP	Building an Effective Internal Audit Function in the Public Sector Beili Wong, Chief Internal Auditor, Province of Ontario and Paul Forgues, Executive Director, IIA Canada	Evolving Audit Shops: Are there Easy Wins in Cybersecurity for Internal Audit? Javed Akbar, Chief Risk & Gov Officer, Tasnee Investment Management	ESG and Climate Change: The Role of Internal Audit William Murphy, KPMG

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

		Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4	Track 5	Track 6
	General Session	Leadership & Innovation	French Language Content	Fraud & Ethics	Public Sector/MUSH	IT Audit, Cyber Security and Data Analytics	Soundbites
10:00 – 10:10	Opening Remarks for the Day
10:15 – 10:55	Concurrent Session 7	Insights from future internal audit skills survey Adam Vitalis, University of Waterloo	Corruption – Implications morales, éthiques, financières et légales Marc Tass é, Université d’Ottawa	Implementing a new Ethics & Compliance Program during COVID 19 – Challenges & Lessons Learned? Javed Akbar, Chief Risk & Gov Officer, Tasnee Investment Management	Adapting to the New Normal of Internal Audit—Time to Question the Status Quo Imran Zia, Government of British Columbia	Agile Auditing of the Benefits Delivery Modernization Programme at ESDC Sheri Ostridge, François-Michel Brière and Isabelle Barrette, ESDC	Don’t Be Caught On Empty Shannon Walter, ISM Canada
10:55 – 10:58	Get Up and Stretch!
11:00 – 11:55	Concurrent Session 8	Moving Forward with Resilience Leah White and Jen Pavlov, Grant Thornton LLP	Évaluation de programme d’éthique et de conformity: Une opportunité de leadership pour les Auditeurs Internes Denis Chalifour, Consultant – Forensic Accounting		Internal Audit and Results Based Management: Creating Synergies for a Complex World Steve Montague, Performance Management Network	Gathering Business Intelligence from Interview Notes with Natural Language Processing Jasbir Singh and Mourad Nizar, Canada Revenue Agency	The AI Enabled Fraud Triangle Toby DeRoche, Insight CPE, LLC and Michael Bottala, MindBridge
12:00 – 12:55	Lunch Time! Recharge, Refuel and Visit the Exhibits
13:00	Keynote intro
13:00 – 14:00	Closing Keynote – Maryse Carmichael, First Canadian Woman to Command the Snowbirds – Flying High: Leadership Lessons from a Pioneering Pilot
14:00 – 14:15	Closing Remarks – Paul Forgues, Executive Director, IIA Canada